不训练模型,用上下文经验提升多模态推理能力
TED: Training-Free Experience Distillation for Multimodal Reasoning
- 将知识蒸馏目标从参数更新改为注入学生提示的上下文经验
- 仅用100样本使Qwen3-VL-8B在MathVision上准确率从62.7%提至70.2%
- 适合资源受限场景,训练成本降低5倍以上
知识蒸馏通常通过监督或强化学习优化将教师模型的知识迁移至学生模型参数。这类方法需重复参数更新和大规模数据,限制了其在资源受限环境中的应用。本文提出无需训练的上下文蒸馏框架TED,将蒸馏目标从模型参数转向注入学生提示的上下文经验。对每个输入,学生生成多个推理轨迹,教师独立生成解法并对比学生轨迹与真实答案,提取具有泛化性的有效推理模式作为经验。这些经验随时间持续优化。为应对经验无限增长与噪声累积问题,TED引入经验压缩机制,根据使用频率选择性合并、重写或删除低效经验。在多模态推理基准MathVision和VisualPuzzles上的实验表明,TED持续提升性能:在MathVision上,Qwen3-VL-8B准确率从0.627升至0.702;在VisualPuzzles上从0.517升至0.561,仅需100个训练样本。在低数据、无参数更新条件下,性能媲美全量参数蒸馏,训练成本降低超5倍,证明通过上下文经验可实现有效知识迁移。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Knowledge distillation is typically realized by transferring a teacher model's knowledge into a student's parameters through supervised or reinforcement-based optimization. While effective, such approaches require repeated parameter updates and large-scale training data, limiting their applicability in resource-constrained environments. In this work, we propose TED, a training-free, context-based distillation framework that shifts the update target of distillation from model parameters to an in-context experience injected into the student's prompt. For each input, the student generates multiple reasoning trajectories, while a teacher independently produces its own solution. The teacher then compares the student trajectories with its reasoning and the ground-truth answer, extracting generalized experiences that capture effective reasoning patterns. These experiences are continuously refined and updated over time. A key challenge of context-based distillation is unbounded experience growth and noise accumulation. TED addresses this with an experience compression mechanism that tracks usage statistics and selectively merges, rewrites, or removes low-utility experiences. Experiments on multimodal reasoning benchmarks MathVision and VisualPuzzles show that TED consistently improves performance. On MathVision, TED raises the performance of Qwen3-VL-8B from 0.627 to 0.702, and on VisualPuzzles from 0.517 to 0.561 with just 100 training samples. Under this low-data, no-update setting, TED achieves performance competitive with fully trained parameter-based distillation while reducing training cost by over 5x, demonstrating that meaningful knowledge transfer can be achieved through contextual experience.
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